Tag: Year of Hope

A Jubilee year pilgrimage is not a series of tasks to complete in order to reap a reward, but rather a journey to help pilgrims experience God's mercy and grow stronger in their conviction that Jesus is at their side, said Cardinal Angelo De Donatis.

As we celebrate this Year of Hope with joy and anticipation, we are reminded that our Maronite Church is not only rooted in history but alive in the present, vibrant with faith, and full of hope for the future.

As the nation's Catholics prepare to commemorate unborn children in prayer, Bishop Daniel E Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, is pointing to the 2025 Jubilee Year as a time of hope for healing from the wounds of abortion.

As we commence a Catholic Jubilee Year, a 725-year-old tradition of our faith, we eagerly await the canonisations of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925) and Blessed Carlo Acutis (1991-2006) as part of the Jubilee’s focus upon the Christian life as a pilgrimage toward the Lord, the source of our hope.

This is the edited text for the Homily for the Solemn Mass for the Opening of the Jubilee Year 2025, Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (Year C), at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 29 December 2024.

More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after Pope Francis opened it.